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` t lll l "l DAVID WEBER, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOB, TODAVID WEBER AND COMPANY, 0F PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, A COPARTNERSHIP.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 29, 19116.

To all whom t may concern.' h

Be it known that I, DAVID WEBER, a citizen of the United States, and aresident of Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State ofPennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inBox-Stays, of which the following is a speci*- fication.

This invention relates to shipping cases, boxes, cartons, etc.,especially such as are made of paste-board, corrugated paperboard, or ofany other material possessing a considerable degree of rigidity, butalso liable to be crushed, cut or broken.

One of the objects of this invention is to provide a stay to embrace theWalls of a box so as to hold them together and adapted to reinforce thewalls.

Another object of this invention is to provide a cushion for a box.

A further object is to provide a stay to' embrace the walls of a box andadapted to reinforce the edges between the walls.

A still further object of this invention'is to provide a stay adapted toprevent a tierope from cutting the box.

`With these objects in view, my invention consists of the method andmeans for accomplishing the aforesaid and other objects as will behereinafter more fully described and claimed and illustrated in theaccompanying drawing, it being understood that changes in minor detailsmay be made within the scope of my claim without departing from thespirit or sacrificing any of the ad# vantages of this invention.

Figure 1, of the drawing is a perspective view of a folder or blank, andof a cord or cable; Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the cross-section ofa stay formed from the folder and cable, and along the dotted linesshown in Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a carton provided withmy stays; Fig. 4 is an upright view thereof shown partly incross-section; Fig. 5 is a perspective view of a packer provided with mystays, and Fig. 6 is a perspective View of a section of a box providedwith my stay for protecting it from the tie-rope.

Similar gures refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

1 indicates a folder or blank, and 2 a cord or cable. The stayillustrated in Fig. 2 is made by folding a strip of iiexible material,

like paper or pasteboard, in the shape of the blank 1 over the cord 2along the dotted lines shown in Fig. 1. The cord 2 constitutes the coreembedded in the tubular ridge 3, beyond which the folds of the strip arejoined to form a flange 4.

The stay, formed as described above, is mounted around the walls of. abox, with its ridge 3 along the line formed by the junction of the holdwith a cover. Thus, in Figs. 3 and 4, the stay is shown to embrace thewalls 6, holding them together at the joints 7. rI`he flanges 4, of thestay, reinforce the walls, as at 5, and the ridges 3 protect the edgesbetween the covers and walls, as at 8, whether the box is in theposition shown in Fig. 3 or that shown in Fig. 4.

Fig. 5 illustrates a cover 9 and a hold 10 thereunder. The cover isprovided with a frame adapted to be telescoped on the hold, the joints12 of the cover being adapted to register with those of the hold. Thewalls 13 of the cover are joined by the flange 4 of my stay whichsupports the ridge 3 on the edge 14. As shown, the hold 10 is similarlyjoined, the flange 4 supporting the ridge 3 on the bottom edge.

Fig. 6 illustrates the application of my stay for protecting a box toprevent a tierope from cutting or crushing it. The ridge 3, above theflange 4 of my stay mounted on one of the walls 17, protects the edge16, where the walls are joined, from the rope 15, the cord 2 embedded inthe stay preventing the rope from cutting through.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire toprotect by Letters Patent, is-

The combination with a receptacle, of a reinforcing attachment,comprising a liexible member folded upon itself, said flexible memberhaving a tubular formation at the juncture of the resultant leaves, saidtubular formation being diagonally offset from the receptacle and itsclosure, and having inserted therein a reinforcing core.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence oftwo subscribing witnesses.

DAVID WEBER.

Witnesses WM. PoR'rNnR, BERNARD MARGULIS.

l'opies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C.

